Articles in Sporting Life


September 2009

The Boys of Autumn

A Tiger-Cat childhood


September 2008

Sink or Swim

Pierre Lafontaine’s bid to revive Swimming Canada


June 2008

Geared Up

On the road to two-wheeled transcendence. One man’s love affair with his bicycle.


May 2008

Grounds To Pound

Mixed martial arts fights for legitimacy


March 2008

Facemasking

How the National Football League hides the violence and racial conflict of the game


October 2007

56*

Was Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak the greatest feat in all of sports or merely a product of its time?


February 2007

First on the Hill

The story of modern skiing owes much to Quebec’s Laurentians


January 2007

5, 6, Pickup Sticks

Hockey at its best is a cool, clear night, an outdoor rink, and a gaggle of strangers.


October 2006

Serve-and-Volley, Anyone? WalrusPrime Article

Once the dominant style in tennis, rushing the net is now a vanishing art


February 2006

Dream Genes

If you can’t beat’em at the Olympics, try manipulating your dna

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The Counterpart

The Counterpart

Aleksey Alexandrovich Smoletkin - the former Gorky Professor of Arts and Letters at Leningrad State, the father of a

Dark Element

Dark Element

A Ukrainian prairie city built in the Soviet era to supply ore for nuclear weapons reckons with the industry’s deadly legacy